Tom Blair (4)

Tom Blair is an Broadcast Television Producer, Director & Editor, President at Tom Blair, Inc. of Buffalo Grove, Illinois, U.S. If you’ve seen drum corps on television, in movie theaters, or on home video in the last three decades, you have seen the work of Tom Blair. Since 1984, Blair has edited, directed and produced Drum Corps International’s broadcasts from TV to the cinema. A former percussionist with the Glassmen Drum & Bugle Corps and Chicago Cavaliers, Blair has come through the ranks as a performer, arranger, instructor and judge; and that experience has forged a life-long commitment to drum corps. Throughout a diverse television career, Blair has worked on projects ranging from coverage of the NCAA Final Four to the Summer Olympics to the Super Bowl, and even “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Along the way he’s cultivated contacts with talented individuals in the industry who now regularly spend the first part of August each summer joining Blair’s production team for the DCI World Championships. Focused not only on the current-day video production of DCI events, Blair also has made it his mission to preserve the legacy of Drum Corps International. Blair was the force behind the DCI Legacy Collection DVD set, a project during which he painstakingly restored and re-edited World Championship performances from 1974 through 1999 from original broadcast tapes. In a time when video technology has progressed by leaps and bounds, he’s also guided DCI’s move from VHS tapes to DVDs and most recently to Blu-ray disc with high definition audio and video. At each step along the way he’s spent countless hours pushing technology to bring new life to DCI’s storied past. Tom was inducted into the Drum Corps International (DCI) Hall of Fame in 2015.